Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Brother Ali
[00:19.95]Shadows on the sun (multiple voices)
[00:23.34]Yea, well I guess its no where different from anywhere else in the world man
[00:26.34]I look out my window I see the whole thing
[00:27.42]One side of the street, is Willows funeral home
[00:29.19]and the other side the library
[00:31.86]Try very hard to picture this shit
[00:33.39]Walks is where I live at
[00:34.11]Where parents are embarrassed to tell ya where they raised their kids at
[00:36.24]You need some half and half of a 8 ball, you can get that
[00:38.10]**** with little Rodney, you get all of your ribs cracked
[00:39.48]In a location where slang (crack rock)
[00:42.78]is not seen as a ****ing recreation but a vocation
[00:46.05]And the fellas and the smokers are both pasty
[00:49.05]Get one eye on Minneapolis PT, they both racing
[00:50.85]3 for 50, that's the supply and demand
[00:53.88]And the twin cities, American heartland
[00:56.88]And they've been busy, mastermind, tearing apart plans
[01:02.16]And hoop dream is ballin with blisters on their hands
[01:04.02]With chains danginling from the rims
[01:04.86]Pain strangles them from within
[01:06.12]Till a belt around the arm, makes the vein stand at ATTENTION!!
[01:11.91]I try to block it out with a bed sheet, the moon lights is the curtin
[01:17.76]Cause I'm not comforted by red and blue lights when I'm hurtin
[01:51.84]Mommy loves you, yea I knew, but I wasn't certain
[01:56.88]Cause Aneice is through, but she views life wasn't working
[02:03.39]As a boy she told me 'wait for your father to come home'
[02:07.35]I'm 24, still waitin for my father to come home
[02:09.39]And some parents only touch their children when the whips brought
[02:17.01]That's why bad kids to bad shit, just so they can get caught, and get touched
[02:19.53]This growing up's shit rough
[02:21.87]That's a big part of why we're so mixed up
[02:23.46]**** we don't have Bar Mitzvah's, we become men the first time our father
[02:26.49]hits us, and we don't open gifts up
[02:29.52]Sister Angena, from across the street is beautiful
[02:30.81]But for 50 bucks, there nothin she wouldn't do to you
[03:09.75]Used to be premium pussy, but now she's used up
[03:13.77]For that same 50 bucks, she's gotta do some new stuff
[03:16.62]Whatever it takes to make you pull the dollars out
[03:19.35]If you don't intervene, then there's a day she'll turn her daughter out
[03:26.25]Speaking of kids, I'm fixing lunch for my first born
[03:31.29]I had the windows wide open cause the weathers warm
[03:37.20]That's when the greatest hits of Donny Hathaway
[03:38.82]got interrupted by a driveby shooting half a block away
[03:40.65]Faheim was in the window, he didn't get hit though
[03:44.46]All praise to Allah
[03:46.86]I see all this from the desk that I write my rhymes from
[03:50.16]Pen starts to scribble on its own, my minds numb
[03:55.38]But, you can call me modern urban Normal Rockwell (3x)
[04:02.61]I paint a picture of the spot well
[04:08.67]Outside my window (5x)
[04:27.51]I can just feel that... summer breeze